Clairvoyant

The Clairvoyant is the founder of Skyfire Avenue, the former guardian of the Eye of Tomorrow, and the seer whose preparations shape humanity’s response to the alien crisis. His civilian name is never disclosed. Deimos is an old combat and DreamNet identity, while First Under Heaven is the reputation attached to his piloting at its height; neither is confirmed as a birth name. His visions reveal possibilities rather than an immutable future, and using them exhausts his life. He spends his remaining years arranging successors, training systems, and personal bonds around the possibility that Lan Jue can become the variable humanity needs.

Biography

The seer at the center of Skyfire Avenue

The Clairvoyant first appears through an apparently small use of divination, locating a wine and demonstrating that ordinary information is accessible to his Discipline. His greater significance is institutional. He founded Skyfire Avenue and chairs its council, balancing thirteen strong and independent Adepts rather than ruling a conventional army. His age and seclusion conceal a Paragon once ranked among the strongest in human history. (Chapters 12, 28–36, and 198–200)

His power is poorly suited to casual confrontation. The Clairvoyant possesses enormous destructive capacity but describes his Discipline as less useful in a skirmish, where speed and precise exchange matter more than large-scale force. He therefore governs as a planner and arbiter, relying on the Avenue’s specialists for many immediate threats. This is not passivity: he creates the institution, selects people who can survive without uniform obedience, and preserves enough authority to convene rivals such as the Pontiff and Satan under one roof. (Chapters 28–36 and 255–259)

Deimos removes the mask

During the Star Alliance exhibition, the Clairvoyant enters DreamNet as Deimos. The youthful figure initially hides his identity and confronts the famous pilots on their own ground. When the mask falls, Deimos is revealed as the Avenue’s founder and the legendary First Under Heaven, a pilot associated with the highest level of DreamNet combat. The reveal joins three aspects of one man—seer, founder, and former combatant—without establishing that Deimos is his civilian name. (Chapters 268–289)

Warning translated into preparation

He uses the gathering to explain the approaching extinction threat. Fifteen years earlier, he had sensed a wave of death and spent the remaining time searching its possibilities for a surviving line of light. Lan Jue appears within that search as a crucial variable, and the Four Divine Monarchs become a formation that may influence the outcome. The Clairvoyant also admits that he told the Pontiff and Satan a manipulated version of the prophecy. His strategy depends on concealment as well as foresight: he moves powerful people toward useful positions without giving each of them the whole plan. (Chapters 288–297)

The warning has practical consequences. He advocates broader mecha and pilot development and treats DreamNet as infrastructure for training rather than entertainment alone. The exhibition turns famous pilots into teachers and symbols, while later DreamNet upgrades support the human preparation he believes the future requires. His sight cannot guarantee that these measures will succeed; it identifies a possible route and gives humanity reasons to prepare before the evidence is universally accepted. (Chapters 289–309 and 381–488)

Guiding lives from a distance

The most intimate part of the Clairvoyant’s plan concerns Lan Jue and Zhou Qianlin. He had raised Hera and Qianlin as Jue Di raised Lan Jue and Lan Qing. He instructed Hera to guide Lan Jue toward goodness, but he later stresses that her love for him was her own choice. After Hera’s death, Qianlin assumes part of that mission. The Clairvoyant uses Bize, blood, and a staged wedding identity to create conditions in which Lan Jue and Qianlin’s Disciplines can fuse. (Chapters 366–515 and 524–529)

These interventions preserve lives and enable later power, but they are also manipulative. Lan Jue and Qianlin are denied critical information while their grief and affection become elements in a plan they did not design. Before dying, the Clairvoyant leaves recordings and explanations that disclose Hera’s role, Qianlin’s choice, and his own responsibility. The disclosure does not retroactively provide informed consent. It shows that his benevolence is inseparable from a willingness to burden other people with the future he has seen. (Chapters 524–529)

An inheritance prepared before death

He prepares an institutional and spiritual succession at the same time. The Wine Master assumes the chairmanship, Luo Xianni is drawn back toward the Avenue, and the young Jun’er receives the inheritance of the Eye of Tomorrow. The Four Divine Monarchs receive pendants tied to his plan. Lan Jue’s pendant, Lumina, later breaks to provoke a response from the stars; it is a delayed trigger, not a general healing charm. (Chapters 289–309, 488–515, 530, and 833–834)

Becoming starlight

The Clairvoyant chooses to die in the Ocean of Stars museum after his farewells and transfers are complete. His body and presence dissolve into starlight rather than falling in combat. The death is voluntary in timing but not freely avoidable: repeated divination has consumed body and soul, and he says that he cannot use his own sight to escape the price. His passing closes his active role without making him omniscient or immortal. (Chapters 529–531)

Part of his power remains as a fixed legacy. The Ocean of Stars stays anchored in its museum and protects Jun’er, at one point transporting her away from danger. That intervention belongs to the inherited domain and the preparations he left behind, not to a resurrection of the Clairvoyant. Later characters invoke his predictions, artifacts, and choices as the war unfolds, but he is never restored to life in the supplied corpus. (Chapters 642–643, 833–859, and 894)

Appearance and personality

In ordinary life the Clairvoyant is an old, increasingly frail man whose body shows the cost of looking beyond the present. His eyes retain a star-like depth even as his strength fails. As Deimos in DreamNet he first presents a younger, masked figure, allowing the famous pilot to stand apart from the dying seer before the illusion gives way and his true age becomes visible. The contrast is deliberate: public legend has preserved the force he once possessed, while prophecy has accelerated his decline. (Chapters 12, 268–289, and 524–531)

He is calm, ceremonious, patient, and capable of formidable secrecy. His plans show compassion on a civilizational scale and tenderness toward the people he raised, yet also a conviction that he may arrange their lives for a future they cannot see. He lies to rival leaders, withholds truth from Lan Jue and Qianlin, and accepts his own death as part of the design. He is not certain of every outcome; variables frighten and interest him precisely because sight reveals branching possibilities. His final recordings are both explanation and confession from a guardian who knows that foresight did not make all his methods just. (Chapters 288–297 and 524–531)

Disciplines and abilities

Foresight and divination

The Clairvoyant can locate hidden things, read possibilities, and perceive large currents of danger far in advance. His greatest vision identifies the alien death wave and a possible surviving path involving Lan Jue and the Four Divine Monarchs. The Discipline is not absolute prediction. He can be surprised by variables, must interpret symbolic possibilities, and deliberately changes what he tells different listeners. Its cost is severe: sustained use erodes his vitality and soul until death can no longer be postponed. (Chapters 12, 288–297, and 524–531)

Eye of Tomorrow and Ocean of Stars

The Eye of Tomorrow is the astrum associated with the Clairvoyant’s path and contributes to his rise into the Nirvana level of Paragon cultivation. His Domain, the Ocean of Stars, expresses that path as a stellar expanse capable of large-scale influence, protection, and spatial intervention. After his death it remains fixed at the museum and acts for Jun’er as its inheritor. Because the remnant is anchored and succession-dependent, it does not grant the deceased Clairvoyant unrestricted action anywhere in the universe. (Chapters 288–297, 529–531, and 642–643)

Deimos and large-scale combat power

Under the identity Deimos, the Clairvoyant was an elite mecha pilot known as First Under Heaven. DreamNet lets him present that earlier prowess directly and command the attention of the Star Alliance. His Paragon Discipline also possesses immense destructive potential. He explicitly distinguishes that scale from skirmishing ability: broad force and future sight do not automatically make him the best close-range duelist, especially once age and spiritual depletion have weakened him. (Chapters 28–36 and 268–297)

Strategic preparation

His most consequential ability is the disciplined use of partial knowledge. He founds an institution, promotes DreamNet training, assembles pilots, distributes pendants, arranges the fusion path of Lan Jue and Qianlin, and chooses Jun’er as successor. These are strategic achievements rather than supernatural control over every participant. Hera’s love, Qianlin’s choices, Lan Jue’s responses, and the later use of the pendants retain their own agency and uncertainty. (Chapters 288–309, 366–531, and 833–834)

Relationships

• Lan Jue: The central variable in the Clairvoyant’s final vision. He trains, warns, equips, and manipulates Lan Jue, then leaves him a record of the truth that had shaped his relationships.
• Zhou Qianlin: One of the girls he raises and later places within his succession plan. Her mission and fused Discipline become essential, but she makes emotional choices the Clairvoyant cannot honestly claim as his creation.
• Jun’er: The inheritor of the Eye of Tomorrow. The Clairvoyant entrusts the next seer’s path to her, and the fixed Ocean of Stars continues to protect her after his death.
• Wine Master: A senior colleague and successor in Skyfire Avenue’s leadership. The Clairvoyant transfers institutional responsibility to him before withdrawing into his final preparations.
• Luo Xianni: An old companion estranged from the Avenue’s center. His final arrangements help draw her back and repair a relationship needed for the institution’s future.
• Jue Di: A peer in the hidden upbringing of the next generation. The Clairvoyant raises Hera and Qianlin in a pattern parallel to Jue Di’s care for Lan Jue and Lan Qing.

Items

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